Julie Pace: Death Toll Will Far Exceed the Predictions from the White House of Around 60K

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PACE: "We’re somewhere in the middle of what we are told is a pivot from this White House, which is supposed to be a pivot away from the daily briefings and a pivot toward a real focus on the economy. We all saw how that went yesterday. I think that’s probably a blueprint for what you’ll see over the next couple days. But I think one of the really important things that we’re looking at this week is what’s happening, you know, in the real world right now. The President talked a lot in previous weeks about keeping the death toll in the U.S. Below or around 60,000. We’re about to hit that number, which means the death toll in the U.S. is going to far exceed what those predictions were. I think that’s going to be — or should be a reality check for the White House, that this is not a crisis that is abating, and it is not one they can just pivot message-wise beyond. There are still Americans that going to be dying, far beyond the numbers that the White House put out there for the public."